John Paterson (New York)

John Paterson (1744-19 July 1808) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 16) from 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1805, preceding Uri Tracy.

Biography
John Paterson was born in Farmington, Connecticut in 1744, the son of a militia colonel who died at the Siege of Havana in 1762. He went on to serve in the Massachusetts State House from 1774 to 1775 before becoming a colonel in the Continental Army and taking part in the Siege of Boston, the invasion of Canada, the Battle of Trenton, and the Battle of Princeton before being promoted to Brigadier-General. After fighting at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, he spent hte rest of the war in the Hudson River valley, and, in 1787, he helped suppress Shays' Rebellion. In 1790, he purchased land in Broome and Tioga Counties, New York, and he moved to Lisle, Tioga County in 1791. He served in the State Assembly in 1793, as a judge of the Tioga County Court from 1798 to 1806, in the US House of Representatives from 1803 to 1805, and then on the Broome County Court. He died in 1808; his grandson Thomas J. Paterson would go on to become a congressman.